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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 1979
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ramesh C Varshney, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kalyanasundaram Venkateswaran, San Jose, CA (US);
Gilbert F Amelio, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365219 ; 365 77 ; 365183 ;
Abstract
A serial-parallel-serial organized charge-coupled device memory incorporates interlacing and ripple clocking of the parallel shift registers to achieve a high density of bits per unit area. The memory is organized as sixteen 4,096-bit blocks which are randomly accessible. The data in each of the sixteen blocks advance simultaneously at the rate of one bit per cycle. Each block has its own reference charge generator, sense amplifier, input-output decoder and CCD input circuit.